I just wrote in a parenthetical that the air has been horrible. Well,these pictures say at least 1,000 words.

It has really been horrible. I think they are freaking out about the Olympics. next week is the big one-year-from the-Games celebration and countdown and they do not want it looking like this. It started raining this afternoon.. big thunderstorms and lots of rain, which is good. That will clear things out, at least for a while,. now people are starting to say the government is doing this, setting off rockets or something. I don’t know.. sounds like nonsense to me…

BUT, nobody wants to turn on their TV around the world on August 8 for the big “Olympics are coming to China” spectacle and see this horrible air.